Robert Hawkins

In the context of this is what we’ll be doing or is it in the context of a progress report working to the final fine-tuning position? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I just wanted to do some follow-up as to a specific concern regarding supplementary health benefits. I understand some changes are being proposed or considered and juggled. I wonder where the public benefits are going to be brought into this from a communication point of view as to some of the changes and the adjustments. As I understand it, there are no big dramatic changes from the existing plan, but, of course, the public is still keenly aware of this particular issue. Does the Minister have any sort of update that she could provide the House? Thank you.

So there’s no policy in FMB stopping the authority from spending what would be directly physician money on an NP to make up sort of some of the shortfall when it comes to human resource ability.

Thank you. Speaking specifically to the authority problem or the redirection of the actual funds, at the time we had this discussion you made me aware that FMB is essentially the problem. We have FMB in the room in an informal process and what headway has been made with breaking down those barriers at FMB to allow the department, or I should say the authority, the flexibility of spending the money where it needs to be, which is in essence allowing people on the ground to do the work they need to do. Thank you.

Mr. Speaker, it gives me great pleasure to recognize a constituent of mine, David Yau, who is in the gallery here today. Thank you.

Mr. Speaker, would the Minister of Education be willing to commit to see if he could bring those partners to the table with Aurora College to discuss about putting forward a joint proposal to P3 Canada to take advantage of those opportunities? I won’t name the particular parties here in the House, for obvious reasons. They may not have publicly committed their interest at this stage so I don’t want to put them on the spot. Would the Minister be willing to commit to bringing these parties to the table in short order so a proposal could be put forward? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. In my Member’s statement today I talked about the further programming opportunities before Aurora College and one of the problems put forward is the lease is expiring in about two years. The issue is about not just the lease, but its present location, I don’t believe it suits its need for future growth. My question would be to the Minister of Education, Culture and Employment. What is the Minister’s plan to help support the college to move forward towards an independent campus that I believe Aurora College needs to have in the Yellowknife Campus location? Thank you.

Mr. Chairman, well, if it is only two years old or even two and a half years old, I wouldn’t define it as old. I am sure we are dealing with other facts that are much older than that. Does the Minister or anyone, for that case, know what that zero-based review would have cost to do? Furthermore, what results have been driven out of this? So the costs and results that have been formalized. Thank you.

Mr. Chairman, can I request a copy of that informal document? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. What is the goal of MACA when they do the development and review of the new formula going forward? What is their goal or effort going to be in the context of developing a reasonable proportion? The example I give is that there’s one community one-fifth of the size of Yellowknife but still gets approximately almost the same amount as Yellowknife. I’m just trying to get a sense of what they’re going to do to work and achieve a fair and equitable balance on the distribution of those types of formulas. As we all know, Yellowknife has a very large population and has a very...